[Cialug] Unable to remove a directory in RedHat7

[Tom Sellers]

I ran it as you state below and the response is:

find: paths must precede expression

Ran it as root.
 

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 From: Ron Houk <houk.ron at gmail.com>
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org> 
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 2:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Unable to remove a directory in RedHat7
  

Tom,

To use the find command to try to strip off the directory cd into the
directory above it ( V6 )



and then run

find . -type d -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -exec rm -rf {} \;


I think the way you ran it before with


find Portal -type d -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -exec rm -rf {} \;

it was saying "look inside of directory 'Portal' and delete any
directories inside it."






On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 8:08 PM, Paul Gray <gray at cs.uni.edu> wrote:

> On 08/21/2014 07:47 PM, Tom Pohl wrote:
> > Can you try to mv the folder to a higher level like
> /usr/local/samba/public/extended/
> >
> > -Tom
>
> rm -rf can get hung up on unusual filenames, but "find" isn't as finicky.
>
> Just try:
>
>   find /dir -type f -exec rm {} \;
>
> Watch for error messages - they'll expose the culprit.  The above will
> leave all of the directories in place though.
>
> If it goes through, you can also try clipping all directories one-deep:
>
>   find /dir -type d -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -exec rm -rf {} \;
>
>
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